Monument to Robert Steward (1526/30-1570) in Ely Cathedral. He was an ancestor of Oliver Cromwell and uncle of Robert Styward (d.1557) or Steward, last Prior of Ely Abbey and and first Dean of Ely Cathedral, "who fabricated a descent from Sir Alexander Stuart, a ferocious offshoot of the Scottish Royal House. However, it has been suggested that his real ancestry involved a promotion from the keeping of pigs to the holding of manorial courts" (i.e. the duty of a "steward" of a lord of a manor). "A minor gentry family in late medieval Norfolk, their fortune, as well as their pedigree, was made by the time-serving prior, who assigned generous tracts of dean and chapter lands within the Isle of Ely to numerous relatives". (Source: STEWARD, Sir Simeon (1575-1632), of Stuntney, Cambs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010[1]). See the supposedly "fabricated pedigree" and the heraldry adopted in the w:Heraldic Visitation of Cambridgeshire, 1575 (Clay, J. W., ed. (1897). The Visitation of Cambridge made in Anno 1575, continued and enlarged with the Visitation of the same county made by Henery St George, Richmond Herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camden, Clarenceulx, in Anno 1619, with many other descents added thereto. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 41. London, pp.7-11 [2]). The recumbent effigy is dressed in armour sporting bogus heraldry. The Latin inscription has been rendered in English verse thus:

Note: A lustrum in ancient Rome was a period of 5 years, thus he lived for less than 9 lustra, less than 45 years, so died aged 40-44, and unmarried.

Heraldry

Arms quarterly of 9 (source: Clay, J. W., ed. (1897). The Visitation of Cambridge made in Anno 1575, continued and enlarged with the Visitation of the same county made by Henery St George, Richmond Herald, marshall and deputy to Willm. Camden, Clarenceulx, in Anno 1619, with many other descents added thereto. Harleian Society, 1st ser. 41. London, p.7 [3]):

• 1: Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend raguly or (Steward Augmentation) w:Augmentation of honour to the arms of Steward given by the French King Charles VI (1368-1422) to Sir Alexander Steward "The Fierce" (a grandson of w:Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland (died 1283), from whose first son were descended all the Stuart kings of Scotland), for service done by his father Andrew Steward to that king and to the king of Scots, and also to John the French king, grand-father to Charles VI. Evidently alludes to the following event. An armed knight foughtwith a lion, and having broken his sword, which lay in fragments at his feet, snatched up a rude club with which he combatted the beast. In allusion to this, in some books the following crest is given to the Steward family A sword broken in two, the pieces placed in saltire on a wreath, and surmounting a ragged staff erecly or. (Source: Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 1777, pp.183-5[4])
• 2: Vert, three boar's heads couped argent (Boreley)
• 3: Argent, a lion rampant sable on the shoulder a mullet or (Walkfare)
• 4: Per pale gules and sable a lion rampant argent crowned or on the shoulder a crescent of the second (Bestney) (here shown Per pale sable and gules and a lion rampant guardant)
• 5: Argent, a cross flory sable between four martlets of the second (Spenlow) (here shown as Cornish choughs proper)
• 6: ? Argent, two pallets and three barrulets between nine fleurs-de-lis sable ?
• 7: Vert, three lions passant or a mullet of the last (FitzGeffrey)
• 8: Azure, a chevron ermine between three leopard's faces or (Blackney) (here with chevron or)
• 9: Argent, a lion rampant guardant sable within a bordure of the second (Beruen)